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AX HANDLE.

No. 803,767. Patented Aug. 19, 1884.,

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NlTED STATES ATENT @rrrcn.

AX-HA'NDLE'.

sneer? Application filed February 28, 1984.

To all whom it may concern:

Bolt known that I, HENRY H. Tnnuon, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ax-fflandles, fully described and represent ed in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

This invention consists in an improved axhandle, adapted for use with ax-heads having a taper eye, and is intended to afford a better grip for the hand of the operator thanthe handles heretofore inserted in such eyes from the upper side. The construction I adopt consists in forming projections upon the butt of the handle at the heel and toe only, and not upon the sides, as is generally the case with iLX-lliL-llCllGS, thus enabling me to insert such butt through a taper eye in the an head without enlarging the same in thickness,- which would injurionsly affect the angle of the cutting-edge.

The drawings annexed show the handle inserted in an aX-head; but the combination therewith is not claimed herein, but in another application filed herewith.

Figure 1 is a side view of the ax head and handle. Fi 2 is a plan of the ax head and head of the handle; and Fig. 3 is a section of the handle on line :0 a; in Fig. 1, showing the relation of the projections c to the butt of the handle.

A is the shank of the handle; B, the head of the same. The butt is formed with a flat surface, 0, on each side, and one or more projections c on the edges, whereby a flatsided hand-holder is formed, which conforms to the natural grip of the fingers and palm more perfectly than the round conical wedge of the common ax-handle hand-hold, and affords correspondingly a more perfect hold for the hand in the motions and actions peculiar to the use of the ax. D is the aX-head, and D and D the inner and outer ends of a taper eye formed in the same. Such taper eye is shown largest upon the outer side, as at D", and the head of the handle at B is correspondingly shaped, so as to wedge within the eye and remain there in when in use without fastenings of any kind.

A taper eye and a head adapted to fit it have ICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 303,767, dated August 19, 1884.

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long been used in other tools not requiring any projections atthc butt of thehandle; but owing to the character of such projections as have been heretofore made, a taper eye has never been used in connectiontherewith in the head of a chopping-ax, on account of the obtuse angle that would be caused at the cutting-edge by'the great enlargement of the eye required to pass such projections. Various devices have therefore been made for using a taper eye with a head inserted from the inner side, so as to avoid passing the butt through the eye at all, but special. means are then required to secure such head in the eye, as in United States Patents Nos. 119,867, of 1871., and 274,414, of 1883.

My invention furnishes a means of dispensing with all fastening devices whatever; and it consists in constructing the butt with projectious'at the heel and toe only, and in so proportioning such projections to the head of the handle that the butt will correspond in size with the smaller part of such head. By this means I avoid increasing the thickness of the aX-head at all, and secure a handle provided with the necessary projections at the butt, and yet adapted to pass through the eye from the upper or outer side, and thereby rctain its hold in the head without any fastenings. The proportions given to the butt are clearly shown in Fig. 3, where it will be seen that the same is no thicker than the handle requires to be at other width of the butt, including the projections 0,

correspond closely with the dotted lines D in Fig; 2, which indicate both the width of the head B at its smaller end and the width of the eye at D in Fig. 1.

It is obviously immaterial whether the butt shall correspond closely with the dimensions of the eye or handle-head at its smaller part, but such correspondence is certain to arise if the projections c be extended as far as possi ble to secure the desired grip upon the workmans hand.

Having thus shown the nature of 1nyi1nprovement, it is plain that its advantages may be secured by forming the projection c at one or both of the points marked 0 in Fig. 1, as different styles of tools and handles may render it preferable to apply such projections at parts, and that the 'mation of the pro ot a taper one or both of such points. The essential part of the construction is therefore the for je'ctions only in the direction of the handles width, so that the eye in the ax-head maybe extended to admit the passage of such handle and projections through it without altering the angle of the cutting-edge.

Having thus shown the difference between my construction and others, I disclaim the use eye and handle-head of correspondingform, except when combined with a handle having the butt constituted as herein described.

IV hat I therefore claim herein is- The ax-handle A, provided at one end with an ontwardly-eXpa-nding head, B, and at the other end with the curved hand-hold having HENRY H. TRENOR.

W'i tn esses: I

Trros. S. CRANE, HENRY F. GGKEN. 

